Covering for plastered walls



N UNITED STA-IES PATENT. OFFICE, N i

Ancor n. DAvIs, or CAMBRIDGE, MAssAoHulsErrs. f

COVERING FOR.. PLASTERED WALLS.

Specicat-ioa forming part of Letters Patent No. 7l ,367da'teol Nocember. 26,118.67.

i clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-` Figure l represents one of the walls of a 1 room with my improved covering laid thereon. Fig. :2 is a perspective view, representing my improved covering detached.

My invention consists in the employment of thin sheets or laminas ot' wood for covering the plastered walls of houses as a substitute for the house-paper or paper-hangings ordinal rily employed for this purpose.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I will proceed to l describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In Fig. 1 of said drawings the plastered wall of `a room is represented as beingcovered with thin sheets of Wood, u, the. grain of the alternate sheets running in contrary directions. Y

y I take any log of Wood of the desired color and style ot' grain, and cut it into thin sheets by machinery, in a wellknown manner. The

. thin sheets of Wood are then thoroughly saturated inwater, or submittedto the ordinary steaming process until they are rendered sufciently flexible and plastic.` to be `handled Without the liability of (tearing, after which they are rolled `up ready for use, as seen in 1 Eig-2. l

` which, and they are laid against the Wall,

when, on pressure` being applied, the sheets..

are smoothly and snugly `fitted thereon, conforming exactly `to the` inequalities in its sur-.1` ,p face, and permanently adhering thereto `when l y dry. i

The sheets of wood abovereierredto may f be cut about as thin `as coinmonhouse-paper,

and, when lapped over each other, present `no i objectionable raised edge or1 unlinished ap` pearance. A

I find that the sheetsof Wood require to be rendered soft and flexible bymostening by steam or saturatingthem inuvater` or other liquid, as when the paste is applied to one side i i and the other side is dry, -they are constantly curling or Warpin g, and are frequently broken, 1f 4thus rendering it impossibleto` apply them` satisfactorily as a covering for plastered walls.

A wall covered by sheets of Wood.` prepared f as above explained looks 3 morejbeautiful and` l finished than when covered by paper, the nat-` ural grain of the wood being farmore neat and desirable than the imitation of the grain; and, in addition to the above-.mentioned ad-l` vantage, my improved covering can be ;fu"r-'` nished at a much less cost, and isg far` incredurable, than ordinary house-paper,V i i a What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a `new article 1. The withindescribed coveringffor plas-f` tered walls, consisting Vof `sheets of ,Woodasa substitute for ordinary house-paperi or.` paperhangings, substantially as set forth.

2. Saturating the sheets of Wood previous..

Witnesses:

N. W. STEARNs, P. E. TEsoIIEMAcEER. 

